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The ghosts of HeLa: How cell line misidentification contaminates the scientific literature

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PLOS ONE
卷 12, 期 10, 页码 -

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186281

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  1. European Unions Horizon research and innovation program [665926]

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While problems with cell line misidentification have been known for decades, an unknown number of published papers remains in circulation reporting on the wrong cells without warning or correction. Here we attempt to make a conservative estimate of this 'contaminated' literature. We found 32,755 articles reporting on research with misidentified cells, in turn cited by an estimated half a million other papers. The contamination of the literature is not decreasing over time and is anything but restricted to countries in the periphery of global science. The decades-old and often contentious attempts to stop misidentification of cell lines have proven to be insufficient. The contamination of the literature calls for a fair and reasonable notification system, warning users and readers to interpret these papers with appropriate care.

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